Its home dates to 1826 and was built by William Lucas, a son of the rice mill inventor, Jonathan Lucas. In the 1970s, the ...

Located in Spartanburg County, in a little town called Roebuck, Walnut Grove Plantation was considered the “backcountry” of South Carolina during colonial times.

After researching the history of peasant rice farmers in West Africa for over a decade, I had recently extended my research to enslaved laborers on Lowcountry South Carolina rice plantations.

Hampton Plantation is located in a rural stretch north of McClellanville. Once upon a time it was a significant producer of Carolina Gold rice.

A CAROLINA RICE PLANTATION OF THE FIFTIES—Herbert Ravenel Sass—Morrow ($10). The Rice Coast of South Carolina is fed by eleven rivers whose names read like one of the patriotic catalogs in ...